'scraping' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe the act of rubbing or scraping against something. For example, "The sound of his shovel scraping against the concrete echoed through the empty street."
But what's the point of putting yourself through all that scraping and blood if you haven't even got toothache?
Growth in the UK halved unexpectedly to 0.3% in the first three months of the year, while the US economy came to a virtual standstill, scraping growth of just 0.1%.
TFC face D.C this Saturday in what should be dubbed The Derby della Duds, as both teams are barely scraping to get by.
Shut out of the bond markets and with bailout aid locked, cash-strapped Athens has been scraping state coffers to meet debt obligations and to pay wages and pensions.
He had been, by his own admission, "scraping by for those first few years", and now he would have to resit a few exams, too.
Cook for a couple of minutes then stir in the wine, scraping the base of the pan.
Roast with a splash of olive oil and some salt and pepper until they start to brown and bubble, then mix the pasta into the roasting tin with the juices, scraping at any good crusty bits on the side until its all incorporated.
We all knew in advance that there wasn't going to be any curtseying, bowing or scraping when the Queen arrived at the Irish president's official residence, but it still remained to be seen how the handshakes were going to be executed.
How To Corp was dissolved last year after it marketed "scraping" software TrafficPaymaster – the sale of which, the police said, may have been an "offence of fraud".
"There are lots of cases of gummy proteins that you spend way too much time scraping off your test tubes, and you want some means of recovering that material," says Gregory Weiss, professor of chemistry and molecular biology and biochemistry at the University of California Irvine.
Meanwhile, no one can really know whether the fortuitous boost from lower oil prices can outweigh in electoral terms the general impression that so many people in this country feel they are just scraping a living, and that the coalition has a lot to answer for.
